The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 19:00 EDT

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Protests erupted across the U.S. this weekend, denouncing plans to send more national guard troops into American cities. That pushed back as Donald Trump again declared Chicago his next target. Aaron Collins has more. In Chicago, a rising resistance. protesters filling the streets to oppose the deployment of the National Guard there. We know that they're not going after criminals. They're going after our communities. Protesters worry the U.S. is looking like a nation bracing for war with itself. This is illegal. This is unlawful. This is racist.

Simmering fears stoked by an antagonistic president online. The day after renaming the Pentagon, the Department of War, Donald Trump, Posting that Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of War. The president softening his tone as he left Washington. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war. That's common sense. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington.

Passengers on a west jet flight from Toronto had a hard landing when arriving on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. The Boeing 737's right-side main landing gear collapsed on touchdown. WestJet said in a statement all passengers and crew evacuated safely onto the tarmac and that there are no reported injuries. Russia launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the start of the war overnight, striking more than three dozen sites across the country, including the Capitol. Officials say four people were killed and Ukraine's main government building was hit.

Anna Cunningham has more. Overnight sounds now familiar to Ukrainians, air raid sirens, the third of explosions, and Ukraine's air defences. But these overnight attacks appear to have been overwhelming. The city's mayor Vitale Klitsko claims the government building was hit by a drone. Russia is yet to comment. Explosions were also heard in Ukraine's central city of Kremlinchuk and strikes on President Vladimir Zelensky's hometown of Krivi Rhee. In the southern city of Odessa, residential buildings were reportedly hit. Such was the scale of these latest attacks that neighbouring Poland as a precaution scrambled its own aircraft to defend eastern borders. These strikes, Kilman's Russian president, Vladimir Putin, rejected the idea of the use of foreign troops

to secure borders in the event of a peace deal. Canada is one of 26 countries willing to provide troops for a so-called reassurance force. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, In Seoul. The South Korean president's chief of staff, Kang Hun Sheikh, says the government reached an agreement with the U.S. for the release of Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid in Georgia last week. The Korean government will send a plane to bring those workers back home. About 300 South Koreans were detained in a raid on a Hyundai plant.

Hyundai says a subcontractor had hired those workers. And BC is staying the course for now when it comes to its electric vehicle sales mandate. This after the federal government scrapped their targets for 2026, citing continuing economic pressure and dipping vehicle sales. Currently, BC's aiming for 26% of all sales next year to be zero emission vehicles. But BC Energy Minister Adrian Dix says the province is open to changing direction. We have a review of Clean B.C policy led by outstanding reviewers who will be addressing this question. We'll be giving indication of our direction shortly. But obviously we need to reflect reality in terms of sales,

while at the same time acknowledging that we are doing well compared to everybody. Dick says when it comes to electric vehicles, the province is focused on affordability and expanding the charging network. And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you. you get your podcasts, we update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.